X-Crew, We do what is called a 'proactive sweep' of the cabin at 20 mins prior to landing.
This involves collecting any unwanted items of rubbish, newspapers and inflight magazines. ( We have to collect the mags as we have a contract with the advertisers to hand out the mags on every sector, so it saves us time if we can collect them from the pax, instead of doing it on the short turnaround)
Once the seatbelt signs are on for landing, we go and secure the cabin and encourage pax to hand us any further rubbish.
Once all the pax are off, you go through your section of the a/c and empty any further rubbish from the seat pockets and from underneath the seats. We then collect it all in a gash bag and offload it!
That is basically it! No toilets whatsoever!!
The more we can get on the flight, the quicker we can hopefully do the turnaround, therefore keeping costs low!!
(Naturally, we can call the cleaners in if the a/c is really in a disgusting mess!! There is a limit!!
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